2016 CEPOL Research & Science Conference

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CEPOL 2016 Research and Science Conference

GLOBAL TRENDS IN

LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING

AND EDUCATION

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Date: 5 – 7 October 2016

Venue: National University of Public Service, Budapest, Hungary

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More than 200 speakers and participants from all across the globe met in Budapest in October for the 2016 edition of CEPOL’s Research and Science Conference to hear about the latest research findings and new perspectives for law enforcement training and education. Contributions were made by high-level law enforcement professionals - including INTERPOL Secretary General and EUROPOL Director - as well as by various distinguished scholars, scientists and researchers. As we believe that law enforcement is a service for and on behalf of citizens, we continue to publish the outcomes of the CEPOL Research and Science Conferences to facilitate science-based progress in this field of public concern.

In this page you will find the presentation files from contributions on the main track and the open session programme, where the authors agreed for publication. Additional presentation files are available on e-Net, which requires registration and approval by the CEPOL National Units.

The organisers would like to thank all presenters for their most valuable input and commitment to share their knowledge and research outcomes.

A collection of 30 full-text contributions from this conference have been published as Special Conference Edition Nr. 3 of the European Police Science and Research Bulletin.

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PRESENTATIONS

Main track papers

(in alphabetical order)

	Globalisation in law enforcement training Ferenc Bánfi CEPOL
	Police officers in the making: findings from a longitudinal study of recruitment and education of police students in seven European countries (RECPOL) Tore Bjørgo National Police University College, Norway
	Transnational policing in Europe Ben Bowling King's College University, UK
	International security management - addressing security challenges in an interconnected world Elisabeth Brein, Gabriele Jacobs & Saskia P. Bayerl Erasmus University, The Netherlands
	Evidence-based police education and training in the U.S. Gary Cordner National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice
	A European Quality Assurance System for police education, a challenge for CEPOL? Sofie De Kimpe Free University of Brussels, Belgium
	Law enforcement training and learning: a comprehensive “capacity building” approach Claudio di Gregorio Scuola di Polizia Tributaria Guardia di Finanza, Italy
	Police education - an approach from Brazil José Vicente Tavares-dos-Santos UFGRS – Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Brazil
	Effective counter terrorist tactics and police integrity - to shoot or not to shoot: is this the question? Maria Haberfeld John Jay College, USA
	Networking the law enforcement training institutions - LE TrainNet Tofik Murshudlu UNODC
	Harmonisation of qualifications and training standards in border guard sector across EU - sectoral qualifications framework for border guarding Anemona Peres FRONTEX
	When does training become learning? Transmitting ideas across borders Betsy Stanko City University, UCL, UK
	Building an international learning community: INTERPOL’s contribution Jürgen Stock INTERPOL
	Professionalising policing: seeking viable and sustainable approaches to police education Steve Tong Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
	Political transition, organisational fluidity and police training: the case of South Africa Elrena Van der Spuy University of Cape Town, South Africa
	Trends and challenges for law enforcement training and education Rob Wainwright EUROPOL
	Police education and training in China - the case of the Zhejiang Police College Tao Xu Police College International School & Center for Evidence-based Policing, Zhejiang, China
	Trends and challenges in education and training for senior police level Matthias Zeiser German Police University, Germany

Open sessions papers

(in alphabetical order)

From the Islamic state to the “Islamic state of mind” - the evolution of the Jihadisphere and the rise of the lone Jihad Arije Antinori - University of Rome, Italy

Police officers' perceptions of professional competences Thomas Bäck - Umeå University, Sweden

Police education and training as an answer to new trends in crime - Croatian experience Silvio Bratkovic - Police Academy, Croatia

The community policing evaluation in the Croatian urban and rural communities Ksenija Butorac - Police College, Croatia Irena Cajner Mraović - University of Zagreb, Croatia

Digital learning - how to improve knowledge and skills for law enforcement managers Laurent Chapparo - Gendarmerie Nationale, France

Law enforcement related surveys in Hungary László Christián - National University of Public Service, Hungary

Evidence cafés and practitioner cafés - translating research into practice Gill Clough - Open University, UK Eric Halford - Lancashire Constabulary, UK

Games technology to facilitate large-scale training in cybercrime response Natalie Coull - Abertay University, UK Eamonn Keane - Police Scotland, UK

Network forensic analysis in the age of cloud computing Arturo de la Torre - UFA-ESPE, Ecuador Marco de la Torre - Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland

Planning and policing of public demonstrations - a case study Luís Elias, Lúcia G. Pais & Sérgio Felgueiras - Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, Portugal

The "security challenge" is changing rapidly - can (police) education keep it up? Marnix Eysink Smeets - Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Police commanders' education: a continuous process Sérgio Felgueiras & Lúcia G. Pais - Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, Portugal

The role of research and science in law enforcement education and training (an exploratory survey) Eduardo Ferreira & João Cabaço - Polícia Judiciária, Portugal

Community-based policing and post-conflict police reform Jaishankar Ganapathy & Tor Damkaas - Norwegian Police University College, Norway

MSc in Policing Sofia Graca - Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Theory or not theory? … Reducing the evidence-practice gap Ian Hesketh - College of Policing, UK Les Graham - Durham University, UK Steven Chase - Thames Valley Police, UK Gillian Routledge - Durham Constabulary, UK

21st century policing research-based learning and practice Ian Hesketh - College of Policing, UK Jean Hartley - Open University, UK Steven Chase - Thames Valley Police, UK

Gamification of learning; what works in making e-learning more memorable and useful - a collaborative evaluation Adrian Hutchinson & Sandra Wood - Metropolitan Police, UK

Stress management as a part of police work Mari Koskelainen - Police University College of Finland

Designing postgraduate study to support professionalisation in policing Mike Lucas, Jean Hartley, Sue Hughes & Rachel Connor - Open University, UK

Policing the European arrest warrant - an empirical project in progress - questions raised by the UK pilot study Estelle Marks - King’s College, UK

The police's operating environment in Finland Vesa Muttilainen - Police University College of Finland

Investigative interviews with children: self-assessment of police officers on the quality of the interviews with child victims of serious crimes Renata Odeljan, Ivana Glavina Jelaš, Davorka Martinjak & Dunja Korak - Police College, Croatia

The College of Policing stop and search training experiment Daniel Packham - College of Policing, UK

The power of dialogue in public integrity and curriculum development - lessons learned from the Hungarian public administration and proposal for implementation for law enforcement agencies Katalin Pallai & Peter Klotz - National University of Public Service, Hungary

Between the military and the police: PSP and GNR officer´s attitudes to public administration policies Nuno Miguel Parreira da Silva - Guarda Nacional Republicana, Portugal

Spanish national police training system Silvia Ramos Pérez - Policía Nacional, Spain

A partnership approach to higher educational accreditation of the UK’s national Direct Entry Superintendent programme Sam Redington - College of Policing, UK Ian Pepper - Teesside University Michael Mulqueen - Leicestershire Police, UK

A solvability factor index for burglaries in Ireland Stephen Shannon - An Garda Síochána, Ireland

Police Research Centre in function to strengthening of the criminalists’ competencies and secure society Davor Solomun - Police College, Croatia

Towards multi-strategic police organization Priit Suve - Estonian Police and Border Guard Board & Tallinn University, Estonia

Human trafficking and sexual exploitation: an explorative study into the use of predictive policing Jorn van Rij - Inholland University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands

Putting learning into practice: self reflections from cops Emma Williams & Jenny Norman - Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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CONFERENCE THEME

The world of the early 21st century is truly a globalised world, due to world-spanning transport, communication and travel: goods, ideas and cultures are now shared more widely than ever before in human history. Cross-border financial investment and economic interdependence has become the normality, as well as continuous migration. Terrorism, cybercrime, financial fraud, organised criminal networks smuggling illicit drugs, firearms or people across international and global borders – there is an undeniable darker side to globalisation.

Globalisation of crime – or simply global crime – has been high on the agenda of governments, law enforcement institutions and academic scholarship for more than a decade. While there is an extensive body of analytic literature and practical guidance, less attention has been paid to the aspect of training and education of law enforcement staff and leaders in view of the process of globalisation and the global dimension of criminal acts.

The 2016 CEPOL European Police Research and Science Conference put the focus on global trends in law enforcement training and education raising key questions under the following perspectives:

• Is more, better, innovative training of police officers, border guards or customs agents a crucial part of the answer to the challenge of globalised crime?
• Is law enforcement education ready for tackling crime on local, national, global level effectively?
• How can internal and external scientific research efforts facilitate in improving training and education of law enforcement?
• What are the major (new) trends in the training and/or education of law enforcement staff (on various hierarchy and specialisation levels) in various parts of the world and from the viewpoint of global or international organisation?
• What are the factors leading to innovation and evolution in law enforcement training and education? Or hampering it?
• Need reform and innovation of law enforcement training and education be thought from the top of hierarchy, or is there demand voiced by rank and file officers as well?
• In what way has scientific research contributed so far – nationally or internationally – to define the relevant questions for empirical research or to deliver research-based answers to deal with the issues raised?